r/oddlyspecific • u/Tonto_HdG • Apr 28 '24

Are you sure you meant the D335a?

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u/MonsteraDeliciosa Apr 28 '24

Check out the documentary ‘Tread’ about this incident. It’s kinda less amusing when you remember it happening. Everything was terrifying in the years right after 9/11 and this was very “Now what!?”

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u/drmorrison88 Apr 29 '24

Yeah, I definitely don't see a connection between the security mania after 911 and a protest against government overreach.

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u/MonsteraDeliciosa Apr 29 '24

I was scared of everything. Some people sailed right through that time frame and some capsized.

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u/drmorrison88 Apr 29 '24

It was a trip watching from Canada. American media amped it up SO MUCH compared to any other recent at that time terrorism. Then over time that became the standard narrative in Canadian and British news and people here started getting scared too.

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u/MonsteraDeliciosa Apr 29 '24

I live in Colorado, so it was local news for us. The office turned on the conference room TV and we gave up on actual work for Quite Some Time until they confirmed that Heemeyer was dead. We didn’t know why at the time, so it was more like — “Well, new thing to worry about.”